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From "Dan'l Danehy Oakes": Uh, well, actually it washes quite nicely, thank you very much. Since Anton van Leeuwenhoek lived from 1632 to 1723, I don't see how his discovery of m…
13 May 1998, 23:28
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Yeah, I hesitated over him quite a bit as not being inappropriate enough. Oh wait. I've got it!!!!! Dr. Talos: Paul Williams Yes!!! Really bad, and he'd picked because he's short…
13 May 1998, 22:32
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This sounds like fun, but I think guessing who Hollywood might actually cast, but who would be totally wrong for the part, is more fun. The problem is there are so many to choose f…
13 May 1998, 00:46
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raster at highfiber.com (Charles Dye) writes: Now that I look back on what I wrote and your reply, I think I understand what really bothered me about Agia. I wasn't that I thought sh…
09 May 1998, 01:15
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I *like* this theory! It seems to explain everything quite well, except why no one mentions the cacogens coming out of the wall later on. (Maybe the cacogens had those little MIB f…
06 May 1998, 00:15
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Mike, Ooooh! An easy question! I'll answer it! Don Maitz is the artist in question. I am not crazy about his covers for TBotNS, but I really like some of his other work. Wolfe do…
04 May 1998, 23:55
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This is possible, but my interpretation of the passage in question, which I have appended to the end of this message, is that Weer continued to repeat the story ("as a psychologica…
04 May 1998, 00:57
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Were actually gives his age in the passage I am talking about. He is 13. He says he read the book a year or so before. Let's say he read it at 10 at the earliest. If he read it the…
02 May 1998, 01:05
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.... Aside from difficulties associated with how Nappy could do this with his hand in his waistcoat (which ends at the waist, at least in front), it seems unlikely to me that Weer…
01 May 1998, 23:46
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Again, I don't think this fits with the fact that this is supposed to be an innocent remark. "At first I used to tell it in the hope of satisfying curiosity (and so obtaining thos…
01 May 1998, 23:46
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I have just finished rereading PEACE for the fifth or sixth time. I think it will always be my favorite Wolfe novel; perhaps only because it was the first of his I read. I suggest …
26 Apr 1998, 22:52
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I would say that _The Jungle Books_ belong on this list, and perhaps other Kipling, although I am not familiar enough with Kipling's other works to make any specific suggestions. …
23 Apr 1998, 00:38
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Xury, This was discussed in the Urth Mail Archives Volume 2. The summary link text of the first message in the discussion was: (urth) Agilus' mask Ranjit Bhatnagar <ranjit@bes…
23 Apr 1998, 00:11
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Rostrum, I can only help you with a small part of your question. The story for St. Patrick's Day in _Gene Wolfe's Book of Days_, titled "St. Brandon" is an excerpt from _Peace_, a…
18 Apr 1998, 00:21
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Sure, if I can find it. My old F&SFs have all been boxed and moved around as renovation on my house has progressed. I am planning to hunt for it this weekend, so I'll let you know.…
17 Apr 1998, 23:40
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Tony Ellis said: ---snip--- This is the other side of the story we hear about in Conciliator, when Jonas and Severian have been put into the antechamber. As you say, the scandal …
17 Apr 1998, 01:20
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Oh, don't pick on the poor guy. Just imagine his horror after he had started the translation in earnest and truly realized the magnitude of the task he had taken on for the first t…
16 Apr 1998, 21:15
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